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What are Android's Best Weather Apps?

Ever since I started using smart phones, I have been jumping between different weather apps and have not been very satisfied with most of them. I found the apps from the big weather providers like Accuweather and Weather Channel to be bloated and distracting with advertisements and irrelevant news. The app I was closest to being satisfied with was the free version of Dark Sky, but I didn't get to enjoy it for very long since I discovered it not long before Apple acquired it. What are some of the best weather apps on Android right now?

Blegh ,

I’m using Today Weather. Great overall app in terms of UI and info.

HouseOfJazz ,
@HouseOfJazz@lemmy.world avatar

This is a great weather app. I can vouch for that. I’ve been using it for a little while now and I really like the layout.

fne8w2ah ,

Weawow by far.

mojo ,

Pretty neat, installed it from their GitHub. What change I was really hoping for from Geometric Weather was better widgets and to have the widgets include material you colors. Seems like they’re largely unchanged right now.

Polo421 ,

I highly recommend Foreca Weather. They have recently decided to put a ton of work into the app and for the past few months it’s been getting updated weekly with a bunch of new features. I love that kind of shit.

confetti_8tVST5 ,

I like geometric weather on github

ohlaph , (edited )

I’m actually developing a weather app for Android. Its still in its early phases and is lacking in features, but if you search for Weather Warbler on the play store, you will find it. It’s in beta and you can expect some bugs here and there, but trying to build a fun weather app.

mojo ,

I use Geometric Weather from fdroid, it’s very polished. It’s entirely FOSS, so nothing’s spying on you.

Caomh_Cynbel ,

Geometric weather hasn’t been updated in ages, its been forked and is called breezy weather fyi

mojo ,

can’t seem to find that on the play store or fdroid

jaykob ,

https://github.com/weblate/breezy-weather The page says available on Fdroid soon™️

I like yr.no, by the Norwegian meteorological institute.

mojo ,

Pretty neat, installed it from their GitHub. What change I was really hoping for from Geometric Weather was better widgets and to have the widgets include material you colors. Seems like they’re largely unchanged right now.

lom ,

Wow, I’ve been using geometric for some time now but breezy definitely fixes a few things that had been annoying me! Thank you!

CCatMan ,

flowx

I love checking the future forecast via different weather models. Very nice and fun. Been using this for a few years now.

OptimusPrimeDownfall ,
@OptimusPrimeDownfall@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I pay the $20 a year for full access to the other like 4 models, mostly because I want the programmer to be able to eat so they can keep putting the app out.

HalcyonReverb ,

I liked Appy Weather for a while. Nice clean design, and had access to the Dark Sky API and now the Apple Weather API after Dark Sky was shut down.

The precipitation notifications became nonsense for me though. We were on week 2 of a drought recently and I would get notifications saying things like “heavy rain continues for 8 hours” with no precipitation in sight. Not sure if that was the app’s fault (developer hasn’t updated in a while) or the API’s, but yeah. Inaccurate notifications.

I am on a Pixel Fold now, so I’m currently using the redesigned Google Weather app. I really like the redesign. I just noticed that I had notifications disabled due to previously using that other app though, so I’m curious to see if it has live precipitation notifications now that they have the ML-Powered Dark Sky-like Nowcast thing.

bitwolf ,

Is the new Google Weather app still the web app you get when searching “weather”?

I couldn’t find it in the app store and am curious if it’s just the web app.

HalcyonReverb ,

It is not a separate app, but it can be opened by tapping on the weather widget or searching weather in the Google app, tapping the 3 dot menu next to “Weather / Today” and then tap on add to homescreen. It is more like a full app UI vs searching for weather.

Here’s what the new Fold/Tablet design looks like.

skylinestar ,

How many weather data providers are there in most country?

CCatMan ,

Flowx shows the model is using and you can change it.

ntg90 ,

I’ve been using Weawow and I like it so far.

matcherock ,

second this. its a great app with loads of detail and you can select your data provider

toffi ,

Yes. Weawow is customizable and you can switch the weather provider. Also a good selection of widgets if you need them.

anonymoose ,
@anonymoose@lemmy.ca avatar

Another happy user of Weawow here!

HeavyRaptor ,

I have to recommend Today Weather (not weather today, thats different). Excellent minimalistic UI, radar forecast, percipatation charts, widgets, all works excellent.

HouseOfJazz ,
@HouseOfJazz@lemmy.world avatar

Honestly, my go to has to be Weather Today. Great layout with support for Apple Weatherkit (dark sky api).

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kokosch…

sil3ntki11 ,

I’m surprised no one here has said Shadow Weather. It’s meant to be a replacement for Dark Skies on Android.

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